Shooting the rock, studying rocks

AUTHOR(S)

Berman, Zach

PUB. DATE

February 2006

SOURCE

Sporting News;2/17/2006, Vol. 230 Issue 7, p31

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article focuses on basketball player Terrence Roberts's first environmental geology discussion. Roberts attentively took notes, scribbling the geological jargon that the teacher's assistant records on the board. He looked up and continued writing with a facial expression similar to the other students' in the class, remaining as interested as any 21-year-old would be when discussing the difference between rocks and minerals.

The article profiles the 2004-05 Syracuse college basketball team and guard, Gerry McNamara. In the off-season, when it's acceptable for conversation to digress from basketball, coach Jim Boeheim and junior guard Gerry McNamara often speak about their other passion: fishing. But it wasn't until...

The article focuses on the various expressions exhibited by basketball players. According to the author, when players sit on the bench, they seemed to be restless operators of an immobile machine. He states that upon close up, emotions like fear, hostility and desperation can be seen in the...